Place Name Originally called The Grove. Like St Ann’s Crescent, which was, confusingly, called St Anne’s Hill, it is named…
Place Name Curiously while St Ann’s Crescent has retained its apostrophe throughout the decades, it has lost an e in…
Place Name Algernon Charles Swinburne (April 5, 1837 – April 10, 1909) was one of the bad boys of poetry…
Place Name Agricultural. This was once a lane leading to Swain’s Farm, which was developed for housing between the wars.…
Place Name Agricultural. Until the 1980s this was a former industrial site with both gas works and a coal depot,…
Place Name Named for the manor and village of Swaby in Lincolnshire, where Magdalen College, Oxford, held patronage, giving it…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. Until this area was developed ion the late 19thCentury it was farmland and, as the name…
Place Name Laid out in the 1890s it is named after John Smeaton (June 8, 1724 – October 28, 1792),…
Place Name Developed at the same time as Shipka Road, this is a reference to the Russo-Turkish War 1877 –…
Place Name Commemorating the Battle of Shipka Pass seems an unusual choice for a London street name, to say the…